Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation in Athens. He is author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (reprinted 1993) and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (1993).

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• List of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle2. Luxuries of the Bath3. The Hunt4. "O God, Bless the Amir"5. The Princely Patron6. Maintaining the Dynasty7. The Six Kings8. A Captive Sasanian Princess9. Qusayr 'Amar Contextualized10. Umayyad Self-RepresentationAppendix: The Value of Arabic Literary SourcesBibliographyIndex

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation in Athens. He is author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (reprinted 1993) and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (1993).

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• List of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle2. Luxuries of the Bath3. The Hunt4. "O God, Bless the Amir"5. The Princely Patron6. Maintaining the Dynasty7. The Six Kings8. A Captive Sasanian Princess9. Qusayr 'Amar Contextualized10. Umayyad Self-RepresentationAppendix: The Value of Arabic Literary SourcesBibliographyIndex

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation in Athens. He is author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (reprinted 1993) and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (1993).

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• List of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle2. Luxuries of the Bath3. The Hunt4. "O God, Bless the Amir"5. The Princely Patron6. Maintaining the Dynasty7. The Six Kings8. A Captive Sasanian Princess9. Qusayr 'Amar Contextualized10. Umayyad Self-RepresentationAppendix: The Value of Arabic Literary SourcesBibliographyIndex